The price of habitat

AUTHOR(S)

Sugal, Cheri

PUB. DATE

May 1997

SOURCE

World Watch;May/Jun97, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p18

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Highlights the territorial conflict between the endangered species, the African elephant, and humans in Southern African. Nature of the conflict; Speculation that strict preservation of such a species is almost impossible; Actions taken by Zimbabwe communities to diminish the nature of the conflict. INSET: `Tickling the ivories' dead(ly) metaphor..

ACCESSION #

9707302525

Related Articles

Focuses on the proposal to resume trade in African elephant parts at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Nations that bans all forms of international trade in endangered species; Opinion of Teresa Telecky once the lucrative...

Presents information on the secret sound of African elephants at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida. Equipment used to hear the elephants; Background on the endangered status of the animal; Efforts of scientists to help African elephants in the wild.

The article reveals that elephants in Africa are now considered as endangered species. Elephants are usually killed for their ivory tusks. Their tusks are added to a jewelry collection or transformed into a mantlepiece. The author thinks that a boycott should be organized against ivory products...

The article discusses the presence of cassowaries in Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia. The problems presented by the appearance of cassowaries in the town are described, including the public safety risk posed by their violent nature, the need to protect them due to their status as an...

With the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Endangered Species Act it becomes necessary to review the history of this act and its impact on achieving its goals of preventing the extinction of endangered species. Many environmentalists have argued that the only way to prevent the extinction...

Comments on the decision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to invoke emergency provisions of the Endangered Species Act to ban all ivory imports, in raw or worked form, from any country that accepts elephant tusks from Burundi. Aim of saving the African elephant from oblivion; Ignorance of...

One of the many goals of zoological institutions is to actively breed endangered species to enhance conservation efforts. Unfortunately, many of these species are not reproducing at high enough levels to sustain populations within zoos. Low reproductive success and high infant mortality are two...

Natural forest clearings (bais) in the Central African rain forest attract large numbers of mammals. Little is known about the factors influencing bai use by forest species, though geophagy and hydro-mineral resources are assumed to be important attractants. In the present study, clay and...

The article discusses about the illegal ivory trade in China and the stigma faced by the Chinese people in Africa due to the extinction of the African elephant. Topics include the illicit wildlife products in the Beijing and Shanghai, potential diplomatic problems faced by China, and the...